Subj : irc chat link
To   : Bigboy
From : Dan Murphy
Date : Thu Jun 23 2005 06:01 am

  Re: irc chat link
  By: Bigboy to Digital Man on Thu May 19 2005 08:36 am

 >   Re: irc chat link
 >   By: Digital Man to Bigboy on Wed May 18 2005 02:01 pm
 > 
 > Thank you for the answers. I have been out of the telnet and bbs arena for a
 > few years and thought that the fido net echo was basicly gone because of so
 > much of the internet list and listserves taking there place.
 > I am just a little surprized to see some of this stuff making a little bit o
 > come back.
 > Now if I can just get my old dos computer back and run dos 6.2 again I would
 > happy.
 > I am visually impaired and I have to use the screen reader programs out on t
 > market and It is a whole lot easyer to use the dos systems with the screen
 > readers than the windows xp and the screen readers that work with it.
 > Believe it or not I do have a copy of dos 7.1 here. Microsoft released the d
 > platform to the public and some one got a hold of it and updated the dos 6.2
 > bigboy.
 > 
i.  I have been running Synchronet V3.12A for a few months on a machine running
Windows 98 SE with jaws 5.10.  I too am visually impaired, and synchronet does
run quite nicely with Jaws.  You can access it through Hyperterminal or the
windows telnet client.
I haven't advertized my bbs too much since I mainly run it to observe the
further development of Synchronet, but it's a great package.
I also have Dos 7.1 on another machine, but I like the idea of internet bbses
much better than dial-up ones, and besides I can't afford a second phone line
anyway.

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